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London Standard’s AI-generated review, by late art critic Brian Sewell, exposes a significant philosophical threat

For the first issue in its new weekly print edition, the London Standard has run an experiment in the form of an AI-generated review of the National Gallery’s Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers exhibition, written in the style of late art critic Brian Sewell.

The Conversation

Not yet panicking about AI? You should be – there’s little time left to rein it in

Only a handful of people grasp the magnitude of the changes that are about to hit us. They’re exciting – and terrifying, says playwright Daniel Kehlmann

The Guardian - UK

Daniel Dennett obituary

Controversial US philosopher who sought to understand and explain the science of the mind

The Guardian - UK

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I’ve Been Thinking by Daniel C Dennett review – an engaging, vexing memoir with a humility bypass

The veteran US philosopher renowned for his theories of consciousness is an intriguing figure but too prone to ‘professorial preening’

The Guardian - UK

Evolution is making us treat AI like a human, and we need to kick the habit

The artificial intelligence (AI) pioneer Geoffrey Hinton recently resigned from Google, warning of the dangers of the technology “becoming more intelligent than us”. His fear is that AI will one day succeed in “manipulating people to do what it wants”.

The Conversation

The Guardian view on ChatGPT search: exploiting wishful thinking

Editorial: Hyping AI’s utility is part of a commercial push to get users to cede authority to machines

The Guardian - UK

Colin Thubron: ‘Simone de Beauvoir altered my ideas about women’

The travel writer and novelist on reading The Second Sex as an 18-year-old, discovering Proust, and the brilliance of Byron

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The big idea: could you have made different choices in life?

We can’t change what’s happened – but we can learn to make better decisions in the future

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Doomsday bunkers, Mars and 'The Mindset': the tech bros trying to outsmart the end of the world

Douglas Rushkoff’s newest book, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires, grew out of a brilliant 2018 Medium article of the same name, which went viral and had people (aka his US editor) clamouring for a full-length treatment.

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